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    Raafi Rivero reacted to IronFilm in Has Canon planned a Formidable Attack   
    When you posted this yesterday, I'd have mostly agreed with you!

    "The FX9 will prove to be more popular than the C500mk2"

    The C500mk2 is priced too high above the FX9, and the C500m2 won't be stealing many jobs away from the high end ARRI. 

    This is the problem, you've got the likes of the FS7 which is "good enough" to get the typical run of the mill professional job done (corporate / reality tv / doco / etc) and you've got the premium high end. Anything in between is a tough spot to live. 

    This is why the C500mk2 won't be a big smash hit, it is too much more expensive than the FX9. This factor might even prevent the FX9 from being a smash hit. Is better AF, FF, built in TC, etc in the FX9 enough to justify the higher cost of a FX9 over the cheapie FS7 which still "gets the job done"?

    I'm skeptical. 

    This isn't just a problem with cinema cameras, this problem of a weak middle ground inflicts a range of other products. For instance with audio wireless you have:
    1) the entry level wireless which is "good enough" to just get the job done for videographers/cameramen/students, such as Sennheiser G4 / Sony UWP-D21 / Deity Connect
    2) you have the high end premium gear used by audio professionals, Wisycom/Zaxcom/AudioLtd/Lectrosonics
    What is there in between these two? The middle ground doesn't exist! If I want to buy good wireless that is cheaper than the latest cutting edge gear then basically my only option is to buy the cutting edge gear from the previous generation (a Lectro SMQV from ebay instead of a new Lectro SMDWB).



    Of course, when discussing if FX9 will take the throne we need to also address the big elephant in the room which has arrived since yesterday:

    Canon C300mk3. That's an even bigger threat to the FX9 taking the throne as the #1 cinema camera for low budget pro projects. 

    FX9 vs C300mk3:
    Identical price. (ok ok, FX9 is one dollar less!)
    Identical power draw. (35.2W vs 31W. Low power draw matters, the 63W of the C500mk2 is not a good thing when you're a solo operator)
    C300mk3 has better DR
    Canon has internal raw, vs Sony's external raw (need's an expensive external extension too!)
    EIS with the Canon is done internally for a smooth handover to post, vs done in post for the FX9. That's a point for Canon. 
    I'll give the nod slightly to Sony for having the more versatile mount, but this is no longer the massive edge Sony used to have over Canon. Where with Canon in the past you were stuck with either EF or PL once you bought it (or sometimes, interchangeable but only by Canon themselves), but Canon now offers a user swappable mount between EF or PL (plus a bonus: or positive locking EF mount!! Giving you three options). 
    NDs, Sony gets the nod again with the eNDs.
    AF, the FX9 has greatly improved autofocus for a Sony, but probably Canon might get the nod here. 
    Likewise FX9 has greatly improved color science, but perhaps Canon might have the edge for the win here too?

    Is FF alone enough to make the FX9 win over the C300mk3? I don't think so, the C300mk2 is in with a serious shot to make a claim for the #1 spot for cinema camera on low budget productions. 

    In a way, this coronavirus crisis is a blessing in disguise for Canon's C300mk3

    A big factor in the failure for the C300mk2 to live up to the massive smash hit success of the C300mk1 was that the C300mk2 was released too late to the market. As by that point in time the Sony FS7 had already gained a grip on the market. (of course the C300mk2's high launch price and lack of 4K 60fps didn't help! But if the C300mk2 had came out a few months before the FS7 then the C300mk2 might have prevented the FS7 from becoming a runaway success)

    Is the C300mk3 going to suffer the same fate again in being too late to the game? Perhaps not, FX9 has had a slow roll out due to needing a few firmware updates. 

    But additionally almost nobody has been making big camera purchases in recent weeks, and likely most will be holding off on a new camera purchase over the next few months while the dust of this economic crisis settles. Sony won't be selling too many more bodies between now and July 2020 when the C300mk3 is meant to ship. 

    Normally a company having most of a year as a head start over their competition gives them enough of a good solid lead that it is an uphill battle for anybody to overcome, but not this time. As much of that time has been lost in limbo while we're trapped by the impacts of the coronavirus. Canon C300mk3 has a real shot at this.
     
      

    Sony knows in the current economic climate very few people are rushing out to pre order new cameras. They won't be losing many sales by delaying their news by a few days. 

    And if Sony's announcement makes less of a splash than Canon's, perhaps it is only a "big" FX9 & VENICE firmware update they're announcing, at least that news won't be drowned out by Canon's announcement and Sony will get an entire news cycle devoted just to Sony.
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    Raafi Rivero reacted to BTM_Pix in Jinni Tech claims RED Compressed RAW patent filing is invalid   
    When the RED EPIC was released and being touted as a combined cinema and stills camera, I took it to shoot alongside my regular stills gear to shoot the Tour De France to see if it was viable for stills extraction for live editorial use. 
    On BMCUser, someone else was also planning to shoot the Tour de France that year but ourtesy of two EPICs apparently loaned via RED through the well known Minnesota based pro cyclist who was going to expose the evidence of doping by Armstrong and who's friend was the CEO....
    According to this post, it fell through in unusual and quite disturbing circumstances.

    If you watched the clip of Stephanie Mcilvain in that video, the person who did the recording of the phone call with her was three times (legitimate) Tour de France winner Greg LeMond who lost his business and endured 12 years of hell after questioning Armstrong's legitimacy.
    Imagine being a friend of Greg LeMond,who was losing everything he had legitimately won purely because he was exposing the cheating of another man that you yourself knew was cheating and just letting that happen?
    With a friend like that, Greg LeMond of Minnesota wouldn't need enemies.
     
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    Raafi Rivero reacted to cpc in Jinni Tech claims RED Compressed RAW patent filing is invalid   
    Red do have multiple patents assigned.  Some include claims that are worded very broadly, and some do include quite a lot of specifics.
    Compare the claims in these two (they use the typical obfuscated language and structure that make patents look impenetrable):
    https://patents.google.com/patent/US9596385B2/ 
    https://patents.google.com/patent/US8872933B2/
    Note, for example, how claim 1 in the "electronic apparatus" patent lists the very specific way a blue or red channel is predicted from nearby green values. Contrast this with the wording in the "video camera" patent's Claim 1, which pretty much covers any raw camera with a resolution of 4K or more (compressed or not).
    Red do have patents on codec specifics, but most of Red's camera/apparatus/device patents mentioning compression explicitly list a bunch of compression approaches as possible means to achieve said compression. They are, informally speaking, patenting the idea of implementing the (compressed) RAW recording camera, rather than any specific compression technique. It is hardly a coincidence that Blackmagic's own "raw" codec, a response to Red's patent violation claims, appears to be designed so that it isn't actually raw.
    Now, compression itself is an extensively studied field. It is, very, VERY hard to come with significant innovations in this field. A "raw" codec will use any of a few well known image compression techniques and adapt it for Bayer data. That is all there is to raw compression. Raw codecs are universally rehashing old ideas, and (slightly, if at all) differing in the details of data formatting and layout, which has little to do with actual compression technique. Yes, you can pre-process raw data in a bunch of ways, and these are usually (and I use this as an euphemism for "always") trivial for anyone "skilled in the art" (with being "non-trivial" assumed as a prerequisite for patentability).
    For the curious, probably the biggest advancement in compression in the last two decades is ANS which, incidentally, was explicitly released into the public domain by its creator, Jarek Duda, with the intention to prevent any patents around it.
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    Raafi Rivero reacted to BTM_Pix in Jinni Tech claims RED Compressed RAW patent filing is invalid   
    Its certainly got the makings of a great investigative documentary.
    I like a great investigative documentary.
    Like this one called "Stop At Nothing" about the con trick that Lance Armstrong pulled on the whole world and which he sustained by the bullying tactic of suing everyone that he knew was too weak financially to stand up to him with what they knew.
    They were all written off and derided publicly by Armstrong and his acolytes as jealous or bitter or conspiracy theorists or even all three.
    The biggest scorn was reserved for those who had been privy to the biggest secret which was when he admitted to his doctor just after brain surgery in 1996 that he had taken performance enhancing drugs.
    People like Stephanie Mcilvain.
    I've cued it up to the part where the allegations are discussed about the pressure she came under from both Armstrong himself but also her employer at the time.
    And in particular, her ultimate boss at that employer.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpb-VBNoEC0&t=3958
     
     
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    Raafi Rivero got a reaction from meudig in Jinni Tech claims RED Compressed RAW patent filing is invalid   
    This is huge news! RED can bully little guys but now one of the five largest companies in the world has their thumbs on little Red. Getcha popcorn ready
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    Raafi Rivero got a reaction from Ed_David in Jinni Tech claims RED Compressed RAW patent filing is invalid   
    This is huge news! RED can bully little guys but now one of the five largest companies in the world has their thumbs on little Red. Getcha popcorn ready
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    Raafi Rivero reacted to BTM_Pix in Jinni Tech claims RED Compressed RAW patent filing is invalid   
    The rebuttal to the legitimacy of RED's patents from Apple's imaging scientist might as well have said "In summary...This is like Vanilla Ice claiming he owns the rights to Under Pressure"
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    Raafi Rivero reacted to Ed_David in Jinni Tech claims RED Compressed RAW patent filing is invalid   
    BREAKING:  Apple has sued Red over their patents on red code and their 4k raw camera
    Here's info I have learned so far via anonymous source via personal view:  http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/22255/red-surpassed-beats-by-dr-dre-margins-record-selling-you-just-consumer-ssd-/p2?post#Form_Body
    From apple vs red lawsuit
     
    https://www.docketalarm.com/cases/PTAB/IPR2019-01065/Inter_Partes_Review_of_U.S._Pat._9245314/docs/05-06-2019-Petitioner/Exhibit-1003-3-Ex1003___Expert_Declaration_Redcom_314.pdf
    https://www.docketalarm.com/cases/PTAB/IPR2019-01065/Inter_Partes_Review_of_U.S._Pat._9245314/05-06-2019-Petitioner/Petition-2-Petition_for_IPR_of_US_Patent_No_9245314/
    https://www.dropbox.com/sh/52mk7rbgykdyk8v/AAB096zoYR9MoGSxVnUT4HgDa?dl=0
     
    LEGAL DISCLAIMER:
    THIS IS JUST MY OPINION FROM WHAT MY RESEARCH IS - THESE are just my opinions and my research into the legal documents I have read above. 
     
     
     Apple’s claim:  Patents invalid because tech came from Mølgaard and Presler- video image processing can be applied to Presler’s video camera
    Presler from Silicon Imaging cmos camera and redcode seems to possibly be modified from some existing tech already by Molgaard
     
     
    Key figures in Apple vs Red lawsuit:
    Ari Presler - Chief Tech Officer at Silicon Imaging
    Claus Mølgaard, Vice President of Research and Development - Phase One now at Apple
     
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/ari-presler-a250ba4/
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/molgaardclaus/
    Seems red buys tech, patents as their own, then sues people for using it.
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    Raafi Rivero got a reaction from webrunner5 in What Do Y'all Think of The Kinefinity Mavo LF?   
    Thanks.
    I haven't done anything like that but today someone showed me this pretty detailed comparison of the full-frame cinema cameras: https://www.agdok.de/de_DE/kameratest2019-en
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    Raafi Rivero got a reaction from IronFilm in What Do Y'all Think of The Kinefinity Mavo LF?   
    Thanks.
    I haven't done anything like that but today someone showed me this pretty detailed comparison of the full-frame cinema cameras: https://www.agdok.de/de_DE/kameratest2019-en
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    Raafi Rivero got a reaction from IronFilm in What Do Y'all Think of The Kinefinity Mavo LF?   
    I haven't really posted in this group much for awhile, but the launch film I created for the Mavo LF just dropped today. (It was playing at the Kinefinity booths at NAB&CineGear but it finally came online today). Article I wrote on NoFilmSchool but the film's more important - took me about a year, ha. I've always wanted to create something vaguely sci-fi. Happy to answer any technical questions, too. Cheers.
     
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    Raafi Rivero got a reaction from zerocool22 in What Do Y'all Think of The Kinefinity Mavo LF?   
    Thanks.
    I haven't done anything like that but today someone showed me this pretty detailed comparison of the full-frame cinema cameras: https://www.agdok.de/de_DE/kameratest2019-en
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    Raafi Rivero got a reaction from thephoenix in What Do Y'all Think of The Kinefinity Mavo LF?   
    I haven't really posted in this group much for awhile, but the launch film I created for the Mavo LF just dropped today. (It was playing at the Kinefinity booths at NAB&CineGear but it finally came online today). Article I wrote on NoFilmSchool but the film's more important - took me about a year, ha. I've always wanted to create something vaguely sci-fi. Happy to answer any technical questions, too. Cheers.
     
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    Raafi Rivero got a reaction from webrunner5 in What Do Y'all Think of The Kinefinity Mavo LF?   
    I haven't really posted in this group much for awhile, but the launch film I created for the Mavo LF just dropped today. (It was playing at the Kinefinity booths at NAB&CineGear but it finally came online today). Article I wrote on NoFilmSchool but the film's more important - took me about a year, ha. I've always wanted to create something vaguely sci-fi. Happy to answer any technical questions, too. Cheers.
     
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    Raafi Rivero got a reaction from zerocool22 in What Do Y'all Think of The Kinefinity Mavo LF?   
    I haven't really posted in this group much for awhile, but the launch film I created for the Mavo LF just dropped today. (It was playing at the Kinefinity booths at NAB&CineGear but it finally came online today). Article I wrote on NoFilmSchool but the film's more important - took me about a year, ha. I've always wanted to create something vaguely sci-fi. Happy to answer any technical questions, too. Cheers.
     
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    Raafi Rivero got a reaction from omega1978 in What Do Y'all Think of The Kinefinity Mavo LF?   
    I haven't really posted in this group much for awhile, but the launch film I created for the Mavo LF just dropped today. (It was playing at the Kinefinity booths at NAB&CineGear but it finally came online today). Article I wrote on NoFilmSchool but the film's more important - took me about a year, ha. I've always wanted to create something vaguely sci-fi. Happy to answer any technical questions, too. Cheers.
     
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    Raafi Rivero got a reaction from Dunjoye in What Do Y'all Think of The Kinefinity Mavo LF?   
    I haven't really posted in this group much for awhile, but the launch film I created for the Mavo LF just dropped today. (It was playing at the Kinefinity booths at NAB&CineGear but it finally came online today). Article I wrote on NoFilmSchool but the film's more important - took me about a year, ha. I've always wanted to create something vaguely sci-fi. Happy to answer any technical questions, too. Cheers.
     
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    Raafi Rivero reacted to mirekti in Looks like new Feelworld monitors are coming!   
    I have just recieved 729S, and so far it looks promising. Also, I purchased BP-U60 plate and BP-30 battery instead of NP.
    No LUT support, but I will apply LUT to HDMI out in GH5S so not a big deal.
    Need a sunny day to fully test it.
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    Raafi Rivero got a reaction from mirekti in Looks like new Feelworld monitors are coming!   
    The Feelworld 279s is significantly brighter than my onboard monitor, which is rated at 500 nits. It looks a little green out of the box but has user-configurable RGB sliders and a green-magenta slider so I'll have to tweak a little bit to get the colors spot on.
     

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    Raafi Rivero reacted to Luke HighLife in Great new additions to FCPX   
    @newfoundmass I was very reluctant to switch after being with FCP 2 to 7 and seeing the radically different UI and workflow in X but i'd highly recommend giving it a go, I used Izzy's online tutorials and worked on a 2 minute events highlight video to test it out, haven't looked back! Once you get used to the new way of working it will speed up your workflow and delivery, I edit corporate and social campaigns and with X I'm cutting, rendering and exporting almost twice as fast as before. With all the updates its now a very capable tool and the new Frame.IO integration looks like its gonna be a huge benefit in terms of client collaboration. Stick with it!
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    Raafi Rivero got a reaction from deezid in Looks like new Feelworld monitors are coming!   
    The Feelworld 279s is significantly brighter than my onboard monitor, which is rated at 500 nits. It looks a little green out of the box but has user-configurable RGB sliders and a green-magenta slider so I'll have to tweak a little bit to get the colors spot on.
     

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    Raafi Rivero reacted to majoraxis in Looks like new Feelworld monitors are coming!   
    Looks good - especially for $200. Apparently the non-SDI version (without the "s" end) FW279 sells for $259.99 regularly.  This seems to be the best deal going if you don't need 3D LUTs...
    Thanks for sharing the photo!
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    Raafi Rivero got a reaction from webrunner5 in Looks like new Feelworld monitors are coming!   
    The Feelworld 279s is significantly brighter than my onboard monitor, which is rated at 500 nits. It looks a little green out of the box but has user-configurable RGB sliders and a green-magenta slider so I'll have to tweak a little bit to get the colors spot on.
     

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    Raafi Rivero got a reaction from IronFilm in Looks like new Feelworld monitors are coming!   
    2000 nits for 200 bucks. This was my one Black Friday purchase. Will update on Monday when it’s here. 
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    Raafi Rivero got a reaction from webrunner5 in Replicating 'big camera' feel with small camera   
    Another lighter weight way to add weight and stability to a small camera is to use a gyro from Ken-Lab. I own one of them - the KS-6 - and used it on my 5D pretty often. The downside is it makes noise so it’s more suited for b-roll and MOS footage, but on the plus side it gives you a floaty steadicam-like feel. The best of both worlds is to use it as a counterweight on the back of a handheld rig, then it gives your handheld more gravitas like a larger camera even when it’s powered off, and when it’s turned on... mwah. 
    Everything in this video was shot with that setup: 5D mk2, handheld rig, Ken-Lab KS-6 (sometimes on sometimes off):
    also part 2 with the actual race:
     
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